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Growing up in Sri Lanka as part of the country's Tamil minority, M.I.A. was surrounded by violence as civil war escalated between the Tamils and the ruling Sinhalese. She rarely saw her father, a member of the insurgent Tamil Tigers, and in 1986, she barely escaped to London with her mother and two siblings. "The two years before I came to England were a mess," M.I.A. says. "My school got burned down. Loads of people I knew were killed." (In December, Sri Lanka was devastated by the Asian tsunami.)

In London, she found refuge in the hip-hop and ragga scenes and eventually landed at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design, where she studied film. A cousin fighting with the Tamils was killed the week M.I.A. graduated, and she returned to Sri Lanka to make a documentary about youth culture. "There was no youth culture," she says. "I took a Jay-Z CD and an Eminem CD, and I was like, 'This is rap music.' And they're like, 'What's music?'"